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Deep shadows create dramatic contrasts between light and dark in this high-resolution close-up of the martian surface. Recorded […]

A new study suggests that brow ridges probably didn’t evolve for practical reasons, but for sometimes subtle communications. […]

Viruses shape the ecology of the planet, but scientists still have only a rudimentary understanding of the microbial […]

Using loggerhead genetics, researchers traced the routes of turtles that return decades after birth to nest near their […]

From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 3344 face-on. Nearly 40,000 light-years across, […]

Getting on the endangered list issued by the Zoological Society of London isn’t actually about looks. Creatures have […]

A 33-foot-long young sperm whale that washed ashore in February in the Mediterranean Sea had consumed plastic bags, […]

Many botanists argued that humans must have carried the valuable staple to the Pacific from South America, a […]

Wandering through the constellation Sagittarius, bright planets Mars and Saturn appeared together in early morning skies over the […]

Two surveys in France, one national and one regional, show a loss of bird populations in agricultural areas. […]